No Trees in the Street (1959)

Melvyn Hayes: Tommy

Quotes 

• Tommy : I bet they got a hundred police out there, just to get me.

  Hetty : Yes, you've come a long way. You're a murderer now. You kill old women.

• Tommy : You'd pawn yer own mother for a pint!

• Tommy : If you want anything in this world, Het, you've got to cut it out for yourself. look at them down the Labour Exchange. Every day, a hundred blokes after one job. Then it's in a ruddy sweat shop. What chance is there for people like us? What chance? Look down the street. Look how many people have to go short, and who cares? The last square meal most of these kids had was at the Coronation tea party. Pass the cake, please, and God Save the King. I know it's alright for us if mum backs a few winners, but if she don't, then you have to keep us all. Well, I want something better than that. I'm going to cut something out better for myself.